Flat Sarnoff and I: On our way to the Museum of Broadcast Communications

Flat Sarnoff wanted to take a selfie so we decided that a great spot was by the Newton N. Minow Way street sign on 42 S Dearborn.  Minnow is most famously known for his speech on how the TV industry was a “vast wasteland”.   Fun fact: the ship from Gilligan’s Island ‘S.S. Minow’ was named after him because of that speech.

Here we are at the MBC, this is right inside by the entrance it’s a tree of technology.  All parts seemed to be working, Flat Sarnoff and I watched the small segment that’s on that screen there.  The workers were very nice there, and they had a Svengoolie Exhibit, I love that show I use to watch it all the time with my brothers when I was younger.  We also enjoyed Bozo’s Circus segment, they had the costumes of the characters.

Flat Sarnoff and I: ABC 7 set

Okay, so I went with Flat Sarnoff yesterday to go visit the ABC 7 location on 190 N State St.  It’s a great spot to visit, it use to be a theatre and is was used by several different television networks before it was bought by ABC.  I had to use a manila folder because poor Flat Sarnoff was blending in the background despite his bright colorful and festive self.

This is what the set looks like, it’s kind of weird seeing it in person with no one there.  It was very dark and lifeless looking, I’m so used to seeing it so much brighter it just seems livelier on the screen.